At A Glance
Business Description
Unisys Corporation is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our core offerings include systems integration and consulting services, outsourcing services, infrastructure services, maintenance services and high-end server technology. We combine these offerings with in-depth expertise in specific markets such as the public sector, financial services and other commercial markets, including transportation and communications. We serve organizations and government agencies throughout the world by helping them to use information and technology to achieve their business goals. Our consultants, industry experts and infrastructure specialists work with clients to understand their business challenges and develop innovative IT solutions to make them more successful. We complement these services with some of the industry’s most powerful, mission-critical enterprise server technology. This combination of services and technology capabilities, along with core competencies in such growing areas as outsourcing, enterprise security, open source, Microsoft solutions and real-time infrastructure, allows us to provide value-added solutions to handle an organization’s most business-critical information requirements.
We provide services and technology to commercial businesses and governments throughout most of the world. In the Services segment, we provide end-to-end IT services and solutions designed to help clients improve their competitiveness and efficiency. We design, build and manage critical IT systems and solutions for businesses and governments around the world.
Our Services & Technology
Our services include systems integration and consulting, outsourcing, infrastructure services and core maintenance. In systems integration and consulting, we design and develop innovative solutions for specific industries – such as check processing systems, public welfare systems, airline reservations and communications messaging solutions. In outsourcing, we manage a customer’s internal information systems as well as specific business processes, such as check processing, insurance claims processing, health claims processing, mortgage administration and cargo management. In infrastructure services, we design and support customers’ IT infrastructure, including desktops, servers, mobile and wireless systems, and networks, and we provide enterprise-wide security solutions to protect systems, networks, applications and data. Our core maintenance services include maintenance of Unisys proprietary products.
In the Technology segment, we design and develop servers and related products that operate in transaction-intensive, mission-critical environments. As a pioneer in large-scale computing, we bring deep experience and rich technological innovation and capabilities to the enterprise server marketplace. Major offerings include enterprise-class servers based on our Cellular Multi-Processing architecture, such as the ClearPath family of servers, and the ES7000 family of servers, which provide enterprise-class attributes on Intel-based servers. Our technology offerings include operating system software and middleware to power high-end servers, as well as specialized technologies such as payment systems and third-party technology products.
Our Markets
The primary vertical markets we serve worldwide include the public sector (including the U.S. federal government), financial services and other commercial markets including communications and transportation. We market our products and services primarily through a direct sales force. In certain foreign countries, we market primarily through distributors. Complementing our direct sales force, we make use of a select group of alliance partners to market and complement our services and product portfolio.
Our Growth Initiatives
To drive future growth, as part of our multi-year program to reposition the company in the marketplace, we have invested in and launched strategic programs focused on five targeted higher-growth market areas: outsourcing, enterprise security, open source solutions, Microsoft solutions and real-time infrastructure. To support these growth initiatives, we have realigned our services delivery force by pooling and retraining services specialists in our targeted market areas. To access highly skilled delivery resources in lower-cost regions around the world, we have significantly expanded our use of offshore sourcing of people and centers in such areas as India, China and Eastern Europe.
Our Strategic Programs
Unisys has built core competencies and focused solution offerings around these five high-growth areas:
Enterprise Security
Unisys enterprise security solutions enable organizations to see, understand and address security vulnerabilities in their business operations. We advise organizations on how much security is enough and deliver secure business solutions to protect IT infrastructure and assets, manage digital identities, and track and trace goods as they move across extended supply chains. For our clients, visibility into their operations helps them align their security investments with risk while achieving their business objectives and mission.
Our Enterprise Security solutions include security advisory services, identity and access management, security information and event management, and supply chain visibility.
Outsourcing Solutions
Outsourcing continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments in the services market. As noted earlier, Unisys is well-positioned to benefit from that growth, with deep expertise and dedicated solutions for business process outsourcing, application outsourcing and managed services, IT outsourcing, and technical support and maintenance services. Combined with our real-time infrastructure expertise, we offer clients powerful outsourcing solutions.
Microsoft Solutions
Our alliance with Microsoft is strong and growing. For more than a decade, Unisys has worked closely with Microsoft to develop enterprise-class solutions on the Windows platform. Through this alliance, we’ve become a market leader in delivering Microsoft solutions on an enterprise scale.
Our integrated, cross Unisys portfolio of Microsoft solutions includes Enterprise Data Solutions, Enterprise Windows Modernization on the ES7000 server, .NET Application Development, and Communication and Collaboration. We are focused on managed services outsourcing, security and supply chain, and implementing new Microsoft technologies such as Unified Communication, Vista, Office 2007, Virtualization, SQL Server Business Intelligence and 64-bit computing. We will continue to collaborate in joint development labs worldwide, providing clients with rapid “proof of concept” services and defining the future of optimized Microsoft-based infrastructures.
Open Source Solutions
Open source represents an exciting growth area for Unisys as corporations and public sector organizations recognize the benefits that can be gained from open source, such as infrastructure cost reductions and noticeable improvements in flexibility. This growth bodes well for Unisys as our open source solutions help clients realize more value from current and future infrastructure, traditional software and other IT assets. As more companies look to open and modernized IT environments as well as “web-enabled” legacy systems through service-oriented architectures (SOA), they will look to Unisys.
We have strong expertise in all major open source components including JBoss, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, Alfresco, and Linux; strong capabilities around SOA for existing and new applications; and a proven track record of migrating and modernizing from mainframe and UNIX systems. Using a non-biased, agnostic approach, Unisys integrates open source servers, middleware, databases and commercial software (from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and others) into an end-to-end “stack” to support mission-critical operations. Our specific solutions include:
Real-Time Infrastructure
Our real-time infrastructure (RTI) services and solutions provide the tools, technologies and architecture to enable clients to have intelligent, self-managing IT infrastructures that dynamically scale with changing business needs. RTI optimizes resources -- process and technology -- to meet the changing peaks and valleys of a business’s IT environment by pooling and distributing processing workloads on-demand. Clients can more efficiently manage their IT environment and build real-time infrastructure with solutions that lower their costs, increase agility, and enable business growth.
Unisys offers real-time infrastructure services and solutions in the areas of consultancy and assessment services, IT optimization, business continuity and disaster recovery, IT services management and operations alignment, utility computing solutions and real-time storage, virtualization solutions, business process management solutions, metering and consolidation accelerators, and orchestration and provisioning solutions.
Our open architecture approach utilizes advanced Microsoft technology, open source components, and enabling services and tools allowing clients to transform to a real-time environment in manageable steps.
Our Partners
Strong alliance partnerships are a critical element in our growth strategy. We maintain highly productive working relationships with technology leaders -- namely Cisco, Dell, EMC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle and SAP. We continue to expand these partnerships through collaboration on solution development and sales delivery, as well as ongoing research on next-generation systems and offerings. |
